#be

I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation. ↗

— Siegfried Sassoon

#been #believe #change #clearly #done

Seventy-five percent of women who smoke would like to quit, and yet only two to three percent quit every year... It's significant because we can help women quit smoking. ↗

— David Satcher

#every #help #like #only #percent

Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#attractive #being #call #cannot #themselves

America is a very special place. In this country, you have the best and the worst at the same time. Whatever you can imagine. ↗

— Marjane Satrapi

#best #country #imagine #place #same

The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing. ↗

— Marjane Satrapi

#drawing #first #human #human being #writing

I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#already #been #before #definitely #having

When she became very ill with heart trouble, I saw that it would be impossible for my parents to provide for my studies, and I obtained their permission to go to sea to make a career for myself there. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#career #go #heart #i #ill

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation. ↗

— Ivan Illich

#distinction #expectation #hope #must #rediscover

Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#been #before #born #child #delivered

It would be so weird if we knew just as much as we needed to know to answer all the questions of the universe. Wouldn't that be freaky? Whereas the probability is high that there is a vast reality that we have no way to perceive, that's actually bearing down on us now and influencing everything. ↗

— George Saunders

#answer #bearing #down #everything #freaky